From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Wed Sep 9 17:32:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.8/mc) with SMTP id RAA00879; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:32:24 -0400 (EDT) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 14:59:27 -0400 Message-Id: <002BFC91.001706@scudder.com> From: Jacob_Davenport@scudder.com (Jacob Davenport) Subject: Re: Rubik's cube kingdom To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu While it is true that most of the cube art on our web pages (http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Jake/CubeArt) is two dimensional and therefore pretty easy to make, I have made a few designs that were bloody difficult. I'm rather proud of writing "WTS" on both sides of a hundred some cubes. I'm particularly happy with the chessboard made of four 5x5x5 cubes with a symmetrical design on the sides. Some of my failed experiments were still tough to make, even if they didn't look very good. If anyone has any good 3d design suggestions, I'd like to hear them. Hana, here is my favorite pattern for a single 3x3x3 cube. There is no easy set of twists from solved to this pattern. I had fun doing this pattern on a 5x5x5 cube, and you should be able to create an analogous pattern with all of your cubes: ------- |\ * * *\ | \ o o *\ |x \ x o *\ | * \------ |x o|* x o| | * | | |x *|x x o| \x | | \x|o o o| \|------ The same pattern should be on the other three faces with the other three colors. My ASCII art isn't the greatest but I hope this is clear enough. -Jacob